I turned 42 last week. That was a good thing. I also realized last week, after more than seven years, that my supervisor really doesn't appreciate the value of what I bring to my job and my organization.

That was a crappy thing.

What good and/or crappy things have happened in your life lately?

I may be on a hiatus but sometimes I've just gotta rant, and where better to do so than on this here bloggity bloog.

First, the good news. Today the Sumner Tunnel had both lanes open after two weeks of construction that had it down to one lane (causing all sorts of ruckus, commuter-wise, but that's to be expected I suppose). But today, no ruckus. Traffic flowed smoothly through the two lanes and I was curious to see what two weeks of daytime repairs, after a couple of months of night-time closures for repairs, had wrought.

Which leads me to the stupid news. For the three-plus years I've been commuting daily through the Sumner Tunnel from East Boston, there has always been one spot, close to the end of the tunnel, where my car always gets hit with a big splootch or three of water dripping from the tunnel ceiling. It happens every time, so it can't be a very slow drip, and there's always a puddle on the floor at that spot, too, so it can't have been too difficult for the work-crews to identify it as a spot with a leak.

So, today, when I saw the tunnel had reopened after all this repair work, I was kind of excited to drive through it and NOT get splootches of water all over my windshield. I'm sure I don't need to tell you what happened, right?

Let's just say that the person in the convertible in front of me had some mopping up to do when he got through the Sumner this morning.

I'm so glad to see that this job has apparently been done with about as much success as just about every other construction project in and around our fair city.